Because, honey, I thought silently, there are plenty of desert islands in every marriage -- long periods when you're hopelessly stranded, together.

Coconuts, the fruit of the coconut palm, have the largest of all known seeds and are grown in South Pacific islands as a crop for domestic and export markets.

The Aegean Islands are found within its waters, with the following islands delimiting the sea on the south ( generally from west to east ): Kythera, Antikythera, Crete, Kasos, Karpathos and Rhodes.

Many of the Aegean Islands, or chains of islands, are actually extensions of the mountains on the mainland.

Many of the islands are volcanic, and marble and iron are mined on other islands.

Oceanic islands are mainly of volcanic origin.

Finally, sets of islands formed close to the coast of a continent are considered continental archipelagos when they form part of the same continental shelf so islands are just exposed continental shelf.

The five volcanic islands islands are: Tutuila, Aunu ' u, Ofu, Olosega, Tau.

* 1953 – The islands of Zakynthos and Kefalonia in Greece are severely damaged by an earthquake measuring 7. 3 on the Richter scale.

According to Alexei Nakamura, as of 2012, there are only 205 Ainu living in Russia ( up from just 12 people who self-identified as Ainu in 2008 ) and they along with the Kurile Kamchadals ( Itelmen of Kuril islands ) are fighting for official recognition.

North Andaman Island is south of Burma, although a few smaller Burmese islands are closer, including the three Coco Islands.

There are at least 11 mud volcanoes on the islands.

The Andaman islands are home to a number animals, many of them endemic.

The islands ' many caves, such as those at Chalis Ek are nesting grounds for the Edible-nest Swiftlet, whose nests are prized in China for bird's nest soup.

Of the people who live in the Andaman Islands, a small minority of about 1, 000 are the so-called Adamanese, the aboriginal inhabitants ( adivasi ) of the islands.

The islands are prominently featured in Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes mystery, The Sign of the Four, as well as in M. M.

When they were first occupied, the present-day islands including Milos with its important obsidian production were probably still connected to the mainland.

country code-1-284 ; connected via submarine cable to Bermuda ; the East Caribbean Fiber System ( ECFS ) submarine cable provides connectivity to 13 other islands in the eastern Caribbean ( 2007 )

:* Domestic: The individual islands are connected by a combination of satellite earth stations, microwave systems, and VHF and HF radiotelephone ; within the islands, service is provided by small exchanges connected to subscribers by open wire, cable, and fiber-optic cable

The Faroes ' two largest islands were connected into what is now referred to as " Meginlandið ", the Mainland.

interatoll communication through microwave links ; all inhabited islands are connected with telephone and fax service

During the last Ice age when the sea level was 60 m lower, the three islands of Saint Kitts, Nevis and Sint Eustatius ( also known as Statia ) were connected as one island.

Lying in the most northeastern of the Paracel Islands, at the coordinates of 16. 97 degrees North and 112. 28 degrees East, the group consists of six low narrow islands with sand cays ; enclose shallow lagoons, connected by reefs of rock, and about northwest from Lincoln Island.

The Norwegians, concentrated on the outer islands and outer sections of the fjords, were connected to the greater European trade routes ; did marginal farming in the Nordland, Troms, and Finnmark counties ; and fished for trade products from the south.

The main island of Singapore is connected to the other islands by ferryboat services.

The uninhabited islands include Mousa, known for the Broch of Mousa, the finest preserved example in Scotland of these Iron Age round towers, St Ninian's Isle connected to Mainland by the largest active tombolo in the UK, and Out Stack, the northernmost point of the British Isles.

Thorfinn and Snorri, with Freydis ( plus possibly Bjarni ), sail down the east coast with 40 men or more and establish a camp on the shore of a seaside lake, protected by barrier islands and connected to the open ocean by a river which is navigable by ships only at high tide.

Venice is built on an archipelago of 117 islands formed by 177 canals in a shallow lagoon, connected by 409 bridges.

The maritime portion of Venice has no roads as such, being composed almost entirely of narrow footpaths, and laid out across islands connected by staired stone footbridges, making transportation impossible by almost anything with wheels.

Around Bahrain are pearl fisheries and a number of islands all of which have pearl fisheries and connected with this trade are 1, 000 ships ".

This means that all the inhabited islands are now connected to at least one other island by a land transport route.

When the water levels are low, Antelope Island becomes connected to the shore as a peninsula, as do Goose Islands, Browns Island, and some of the other islands.

Contained within the Zuiderzee were five small islands, the remains of what were once larger islands, peninsulas connected to the mainland, or in the case of Pampus, an artificial island.

All of these islands, except for Pampus, are now part of the mainland or connected to it.

The island of Koror is connected by bridges to two neighbouring islands:

In Addu Atoll the westernmost islands are connected by roads over the reef and the total length of the road is 14 km.

The potters of the Aegean islands thus stood apart from those of the mainland, and in Greece itself Argive, Corinthian, Attic, Boeotian, and other Geometric sequences have each their own hallmarks.

For example, Scotland has more than 700 islands surrounding its mainland which constitute an archipelago.

In exchange inmates would be granted return passage to the Indian mainland, or the right to settle on the islands.

* Structures ; Ruins of palaces, palatial villas, houses, built dome-or cist-graves and fortifications ( Aegean islands, Greek mainland and northwestern Anatolia ), but not distinct temples ; small shrines, however, and temene ( religious enclosures, remains of one of which were probably found at Petsofa near Palaikastro by J. L. Myres in 1904 ) are represented on intaglios and frescoes.

For nearly 150 years after, Venice did not own an inch of soil on the mainland of Greece, except the Ionian dependencies of Parga and Butrinto, but of her insular dominions Cyprus, Crete, Tenos and 6 Ionian islands still remained.

It is bounded by the Scandinavian Peninsula, the mainland of Europe, and the Danish islands.

Admiral Chester Nimitz favored a more direct strategy of bypassing the Philippines, but seizing Okinawa and Taiwan as staging areas to an attack on the Chinese mainland, followed by the future invasion of Japan's southernmost islands.

This may exemplify a rare example of insular dwarfing in a mainland context, with the " islands " being formed by the extensive river networks in the Amazon Basin, which form effective biogeographic barriers.

Of particular note is the endemic type of humid subtropical laurel forest of macaronesian laurisilva, found on several of the Macaronesian islands of the North Atlantic and Macaronesian African mainland enclaves, namely Madeira Islands, the Azores, Cape Verde Islands and the Canary Islands, a relict of the Pliocene subtropical forests, supporting numerous endemic species.

Desperate for labor to toil the new agricultural settlements, the Conquistadors sought slaves from surrounding islands and the continental mainland.

Major combat in the Chinese Civil War ended in 1949 with Kuomintang ( KMT ) pulling out of the mainland, with the government relocating to Taipei and maintaining control only over a few islands.

Continental Europe, also referred to as mainland Europe or simply the Continent ( particularly by the British, Icelanders and other European island nations ), is the continent of Europe, explicitly excluding European islands.

If it is excluded then Egypt's eastern-most point is the Ras Banas peninsula on the mainland or, including islands, Mukawwa ' Island

2 234 km total ; mainland on Red Sea 1 151 km, islands in Red Sea 1 083 km

The islands are located from the Isla de los Estados in Argentina ( and from the Argentine mainland ); from Chile ; west of the Shag Rocks ( South Georgia ) and north of the British Antarctic Territory ( which overlaps with the Argentine and Chilean claims to Antarctica in that region ).

In 1975 the causeway between Viðoy and Borðoy was constructed, in 1986 a similar one between Borðoy and Kunoy was established, and in 1992 the capital Tórshavn was granted a first-class connection to the northern parts of the islands, creating the infrastructural prerequisites for a mobile society on the mainland.

In domestic service, ferries connect Finland's islands with the mainland.

Fair Isle ( from Old Norse Frjóey ; Scottish Gaelic Fara ) is an island in northern Scotland, lying around halfway between mainland Shetland and the Orkney islands.

The retreat of Greenland's ice is revealing islands that were thought to be part of the mainland.

In addition to the Outer Hebrides, they form basement deposits on the Scottish mainland west of the Moine Thrust and on the islands of Coll and Tiree.

Despite their proximity to Qatar ( Suwād al Janūbīyah is only 1. 4 km from the Qatari mainland at the peninsula of Ras Abruq, while Rubud Al Gharbiyah, the island closest to the main island of Bahrain, lies at a distance of 19. 7 km to it ), the islands belong to Bahrain but were the subject of a dispute between Bahrain and Qatar.

The Hebrides lack biodiversity in comparison to mainland Britain, but these islands have much to offer the naturalist.